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West Lodge, Invergloy, Highland, £120,000

What it is:Tucked in a gravelled lay-by just off the main A82 road, which runs the length of the Scottish Highlands, West Lodge is slightly bigger than a bothy and was once home to a farmworker or gamekeeper on the Invergloy Estate.

The late-19th-century property has three bedrooms - two squeezed in under the sloping eaves, where there is also a dated, equally cramped bathroom. Downstairs, there is a large kitchen with a Rayburn, a shower room and a living room with a neat red-brick fireplace. The gothic-style cottage is set in a third of an acre of garden.

For supplies, the nearest village is Invergloy. For a more substantial shop, you need to go five miles to Spean Bridge (where you can jump on the sleeper train to London) or 15 to Fort William. It's an hour by car to Inverness, where you'll find the nearest airport.